Sawadee kap friends, family and intrepid travelers, We just wanted to take a moment and offer you and yours an invitation to the Ko Ra Ecolodge (http://www.thaiecolodge.com/), Heather and I will be living and helping out on this truly special island for the foreseeable future. Our friends Kim and Awe are working so hard to make this lodge a model of sustainability, an example of what can be . . . bungalows constructed with local materials, a solar array, organic garden, waste separation, gray water recycling, locally-produced foods, community-based tourism. The ecolodge has simply set different priorities, most importantly, always sincerely striving to lessen our ecological footprint. And that ecology is simply astonishing, crab-eating macaque monkeys foraging on the beach in morning, nesting white-bellied sea eagles, oriental pied hornbills, slow loris, giant water monitors, oh, a
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